Facebook rolled out Animated GIF support for News feed

The biggest social network giant Facebook now has added the extra layer for Photo sharing feature. You can now have the Animated GIF support for the sharing photos on Facebook. Tumblr, Google Plus, Giphy, Imgur etc already allowed the people to share the animated GIF contents. Now Facebook approached the same way to maximize the entertainment and to describe the things more easily by animation.

“We are rolling out support for animated GIFs in News Feed. You can share more fun, expressive things with your friends on Facebook,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying. Company rolled out new feature very silently, let it allows animation lovers to post the photos via their status update box of profile.


<p data-wpview-marker=Its been tested and works perfectly for status update. GIF images doesn’t work in Facebook comment box. You don’t need to worry about the heavy load of the page due to all the running images. You are shown the Play button in place of the GIF and it don’t play automatically until you click play.

Facebook team noted that its the crucial part of the social networking site and lots of people using other services to enjoy the animated stuffs. So it would helps the Facebook fans to enjoy the entertainment stuffs.

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